zo a rnremonition: 4. 19. M. S. The Arguments to prove that any one AEI had thePromife of Immutability andGlory are thefe, Argument t. If God were todeclare his rewarding ]uflice, then he mull reward one all. Thus sradwardine alfochideth his Malter Lombard, as inclining toPelagius, for holding that Adam could have forbore Sin by his Free-will, without Gods fpecial Grace, that is, his Will that foit fhould be : whichhe faith was nece(b: ry before the Fall as well as fince : and that elfe Adam by once not fin. cling, when tempted, had meritedConfirmation, as he faith the Angels did, being tempted by Leviathan, lib. 2. c. to. An. t. Godwas not obliged to any Reward, but according to the tenor of his Law. Prove that his Law promifedGlory or Immutability for onea& ? 2. Bonura eft ex caujs integris: one aft is but a fmall part of a mans life. The Promife was to the whole courfe only. 3. God did reward every a&: His acceptance, and the continuance of all the bleffings of that Paradife, and the comfort of his Love, was a great Reward. 4.20. M. S. if one alí of Obedience deferved unchangeable Happinefs, thenGod mull be,flow it. But, &c. I An. I deny the minor : One a&deferved it not. No a& deferved in Commutative Juftice: And no aec defervedit ofgoverningJu(tice, but fuch asthe Law antecedently madeit due to. 4. 21. M. S. Merit, it isafuitablenefs of the work to the wages. They that pleafe Godare under his good pleafure 5 thefruit of which mutt be the enjoying-ofhis-Spirits infiniteafffiance. This Adammight have claimedof 3uu ftk, andgloried : for one all deferveth a Reward. An. This is fuflïciently anfwered ; a. Wages ftri&ly taken is Mercer givenby a Proprietary commutatively : It's blafphemy to fay that God can owe any Creature fuch, for he can receive nothing but his own. The word when ufed tous, is improperly taken: But premium aRe. wardwe have ; but no work deferveththat, but by theordinate Janice of the Law. Some few Papiftstalk of a dignity ex proportione opera, butthe scotifts and thewifeli of them deny any but, t. Ex congruitate. 2. Ex palPo. Your fuitablenefs may fignifie either, t. A congruity ad fines regiminis; or elfe ad premium qua promiffum : And thus its true: But it's not proved that any one all was fuch. 2. Or it may fignifie a fuitablenefs in proportion ex fimplici dignitate operis, obliging the Got er. nor antecedently to his Law. 2. Or obliging God as Proprietor to compenfation ; And fo it is untrue, that Merit is a fuitablenefsof the work to thewages, here. 2. It's unproved that Gods pleafednefs mutt ever be (hewed by the Spirits infinite affi(tance : or that one a& deferved this. It's unlike that the Angels that kept not their firft (tate, did never one a& of Obe- dience, nor were never under Gods approbation; Prov. 16.7. When a mans ways pleafe the Lord, he maketh his Enemies to beat peace with him: God faith, This is a Reward : You fay lets thaneternal life is none; s King. 3. co. The fpeech of Solomon pleafed the Lord : And yet one would thinkby his filthinefs, and Idolatry, and forfaking God, that he was not glorified', nor made immutable. With the sacrifice of Alms God is well pleafed, Heb. t3. 16. Phil.4.18. and with Relation.Duties, Col. 3. 20. And yet all that did them ( evenfincerely) were not glo- rified then, nor abfolutely immutable. 4. 22. M. S. Arg. 2. Unchangeable miler, would have been the reward of one fin: Ergo, &c.] An,
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